Peer evaluation process

All submitted articles are reviewed by the Editorial Committee, which verifies full compliance with the publication standards and guidelines for authors requested, as well as the thematic relevance of the article to the journal. If any of these guidelines are not met, the author will be notified for modification or rejection.

After this review, the articles are sent to peer reviewers, who assess their scientific and academic quality, ensuring double-blind review (preserving the anonymity of authors and reviewers). This ensures the impartiality necessary for an objective evaluation of the contributions by the reviewers.

Vértice Universitario Journal takes a period of no more than 120 days to notify the authors of the opinions and comments received from the external peer reviewers.

Once the opinions are received, an editorial decision is made, which may be: accepted without modifications, accepted with modifications (minor or major), or rejected.

If the article is accepted with modifications, it is returned to the authors, who will have a period of 3 weeks to resend the revised version with the relevant corrections, taking into account the following: 

INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND TO THE EVALUATION CARRIED OUT BY THE REVIEWERS OF THE ARTICLE

Responses to the evaluation or changes requested by the reviewers must be responded to through a response letter for each reviewer.

It is necessary to identify each comment or question made by each reviewer.

The authors must provide a response or clarification, which must be highlighted below each comment, indicating the page, paragraph and line where what was stated has been incorporated or modified. In addition, the manuscript must be attached with the reviewers' corrections or suggestions incorporated. These changes must be highlighted in a different color or in track changes so that the reviewer can identify the incorporated changes.

EXAMPLE In this document, a response is provided to Reviewer A of the manuscript “…”

Reviewer comment A: You should incorporate more information into the introduction...

Response: We have incorporated as suggested more background into the introduction, page 1, paragraph 2, line 1-11. INTRODUCTION In recent years throughout the world the phenomenon of..... (Santamouris et al. 2015, Bustamante et al. 2011, Kolokotroni et al. 2006)...